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HBO hears word, brings ‘Preacher’ to small screen - washingtonpost.com
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - HBO has seen the light and is bringing “Preacher” to the small screen.  The pay cable network is developing a one-hour series based on the popular Vertigo comics series.
“Preacher,” which ran from 1995-2000, told the story of a down-and-out Texas preacher […]

I had a physical today at 1:30, the standard yearly thing, which is bad enough, but having to fast for 8 hours before an afternoon appointment is the pits. I meant to wake up at 5 to have breakfast, but I tried to get fancy with the alarm clock settings and screwed it up, […]

(Alternate post title: I used to have to park my own car.)
Likely:

passenger vehicles with internal combustion-only engines*
Hopefully we will be using fuel cells of some sort by then, although it’s possible that we could still have some hybrid gas-electric vehicles being sold.  Also as part of that: manual transmission.
Cathode Ray Tube televisions
i.e. your regular old […]

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Glenn Greenwald: The Military Commissions Act in action
There is no greater betrayal of the core principles of American political life than to have the federal government sweep people off the streets, throw them into a black hole with no contact with the outside world and no charges asserted of any kind, and simply keep them […]

This Modern World
It’s as if the biopsy results just came back and you don’t have cancer after all. You’re not giddy, exactly, but you can finally take a deep breath and maybe let some of the tension drain out of your shoulders. The future remains uncertain but you can begin to imagine it as something […]

Space balls | Salon Arts & Entertainment
Surely you’ve heard by now (because we’ve certainly repeated it often enough) that “Battlestar Galactica,” the new remake of the cheesy ’70s series, is the most thrilling and trenchant dramatic series on TV at the moment (except, of course, for “The Wire”). Maybe you still haven’t given it a […]

It seems like I’m in a fantasy world. Not only did the good guys prevail in the election, but Rumsfeld is fired and Bill Gates is now in charge of the war? I’m not sure how I feel about that.
Oh. Wrong Gates. Got it.

How you like dem apples?
Fingers crossed for the last two Senate races; looks good… But you can bet they will send out herds of screaming monkeys to try and adjust the recounts.

I honestly want to think that Republicans aren’t actually evil. That they do really believe in democracy. But then I wake up.
The Republicans in Maryland are bussing in homeless people and paying them to hand out flyers in Democratic areas which lie about which party each candidate belongs to. The first lady […]